1705034625
obliging, helpful; civil; kind.
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1705034627
raw, not cooked; in the natural state.
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1705034629
Abyssinia, in East Africa. In Bruce’s Travels in Abyssinia （Chap. VII） there is an account of the cutting of steaks from a live cow which was afterwards driven on to the evening encampment.
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1705034631
not obscurely hinted at, very plainly referred to; clearly mentioned.
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1705034633
Confucius， 孔夫子，our greatest sage （551-478 B.C.）
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1705034635
Mundane Mutations, Lamb’s equivalent for 易经．
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1705034637
designates, names; indicates by name.
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1705034639
golden age, an era of perfect happiness, a period of great prosperity and progress or of the flowering of civilization.
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1705034641
literally, following the “letter” or the exact words; giving a strict construction or translation.
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1705034643
roasting, cooking by exposure to radiant heat before a fire or in an oven, open or close.
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1705034645
broiling, cooking by direct exposure to heat over a fire. Meat is roasted before the fire on a spit; it is broiled over a flame on a gridiron.
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1705034647
the elder brother . Lamb says that people learned to broil first, and to roast afterwards. Hence broiling is the elder brother.
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1705034649
swineherd, keeper of swine or pigs.
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1705034651
as his manner was, as was his usual practice.
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1705034653
mast, any kind of nut, used collectively, especially as food for pigs.
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1705034655
Bo-bo， 宝宝．
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1705034657
lubberly, clumsy and awkward.
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1705034659
youngsters, young boys; lads.
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1705034661
kindling, catching on fire; igniting.
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1705034663
conflagration, fire, especially a large destructive fire.
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1705034665
mansion, house; abode; dwelling place. To avoid repeating the word cottage , Lamb resorts to other words like mansion , tenement , makeshift of a building . It is also humorous to turn a cottage into a mansion .
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1705034667
reduced to ashes, burned completely down to the ground till nothing was left of the house but the ashes.
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1705034669
sorry, shabby; wretched; very mean sort of.
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1705034671
antediluvian, of the period before the Deluge or Great Flood; hence, old, out-of-date, antiquated.
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1705034673
makeshift of a building, temporary building; any sort of house.
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